Browsing by Author "Abhilash, Purushothaman C."

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    Ecosystem restoration in India during the United Nations decade on ecosystem restoration: the way forward
    (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022) Singh, Kripal; Abhilash, Purushothaman C.; Maiti, Subodh Kumar; Venkataraman, Ramesh
    This article introduces the special section on �Ecosystem Restoration in India: Status Quo and the Way Forward to Achieve Land Degradation Neutrality� and provides an overview of the four papers that constitute this section. � 2022 Society for Ecological Restoration.
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    Genetic Diversity as a Key to Understanding Physiological and Biochemical Mechanisms
    (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023) Merah, Othmane; Abhilash, Purushothaman C.; Gharnaout, Mohammed Lotfi
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    Tectona grandis L.f. mediated restoration of marginal lands in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, North India
    (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2023) Edrisi, Sheikh Adil; Singh, Ajeet; Dubey, Pradeep Kumar; Abhilash, Purushothaman C.
    Tectona grandis L.f. has considerable potential to restore marginal and degraded lands as it offers multiple co-benefits during the restoration venture. It provides good quality wood for multipurpose use, including biomass for bioenergy and noninvasive traits. For this, aboveground biomass (AGB) was assessed along with testing the critical soil properties (soil physicochemical and biological properties) across different plantation sites during a 4-year study period (2015�2018). The study suggested that the soil properties like bulk density, moisture content, pH, organic carbon, available nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium have shown significant mean improvement in all planted sites collectively. These were improved by ?0.21 g cm?3, 0.68%, ?0.68, 0.27%, 13.69 mg kg?1, 11.77 mg kg?1, 95.20 mg kg?1, respectively, in an arid area (Mirzapur, i.e., M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, and M6 sites, representing a warm and tropical dry climate) from the unplanted control (CM1) during 2015�2018. Moreover, the microbial biomass carbon and dehydrogenase activity were significantly improved by 56.71 mg kg?1 and 6.92 ?g TPF g?1�hr?1, respectively, from CM1. Similar results were also observed in the semiarid areas of Varanasi, representing a humid subtropical climatic pattern (i.e., V4 and V5 sites) compared to the unplanted control in the (CV1). Furthermore, the AGB was found between 12.56 and 229.13 kg tree?1, representing 5 and 30 years of plantation, respectively, in 2018. Reference sites (V1, V2, and V3) were also considered that reflect a planted control, which helped assess the comparison between variable sites and the sites under restoration. Therefore, the study further suggested that this tree species has the tremendous potential to restore marginal and degraded lands in the arid and semiarid areas of North India with a significant biomass supply as an additional benefit. � 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.